On the Origin of Species
When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationship...
View full detailsWhen the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationship...
View full detailsIn the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduou...
View full details'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictate...
View full detailsPersuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist, Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to rej...
View full detailsDescribing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguabl...
View full detailsWhen professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a...
View full detailsSense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civilized" society and t...
View full detailsIncludes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Stevenson's life and works. One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, Stran...
View full detailsTess of the d'Urbervilles is one of Thomas Hardy's most famous novels, and one of the best-loved books of the nineteenth century. After an accident...
View full detailsWidely considered one of the greatest American novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim...
View full detailsAssembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long roa...
View full detailsHaving travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the ma...
View full detailsHaving lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Befo...
View full detailsHaving been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her venge...
View full detailsWhen the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly...
View full detailsControversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904...
View full details"The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante’s early masterpiece and provides an indispensable p...
View full detailsWe takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-power...
View full detailsThe tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and th...
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